We can't pick laws we want to follow

10:46 PM,
Apr. 23, 2013

Written by

Ed
JANOSIK

The column by Christopher Dixon in the March 26 News-Leader ("Forcing gay hiring discriminatory, too") provides the opportunity for a teaching moment.

There is a surge of comment from a wide range of people who apparently never had the benefit of a course in American Government 101. Their lack of information about our constitutionally based government leads them to take all sorts of foolish positions and actions.

Our government is based upon the U.S. Constitution, which, after the Articles creating the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, Article VI, Section 2 ...